Hard Truth

Publisher Marketing: Just three days after her wedding to Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves from Mississippi to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park, where three girls have disappeared during a religious retreat. Two of the children reappear a month later, clad only in filthy underwear and claiming to remember nothing of the intervening weeks. The girls are frightened and traumatized, but they forge a bond with the pair of campers who discover them - a wheelchair-bound paraplegic and her elderly aunt. With the reappearance of the children comes an odd and unsettling presence in the park, a sense of disembodied evil and unspeakable terrors: small animals are mercilessly slaughtered, and a sinister force seems to still control the girls. As Anna investigates, she finds herself caught up in the machinations of a paranoid religious sect bent on protecting their secrets and keeping the girls sequestered from law enforcement and psychiatric help. Following the trail of the many suspects, especially that of the cult s intense youth-group leader, Anna comes to find the force against which the children s minds have been broken. This evil has the eyes of a visionary and the soul of the devil. Anna will discover the truth - even if it kills her." Review Citations: Foreword 05/01/2005 pg. 1 (EAN 9780425208410, Mass Market Paperbound) Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 82 (EAN 9781419326752, Compact Disc) Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 82 (EAN 9781419326745, Analog Audio Cassette) Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2004 pg. 96 (EAN 9780399152412, Hardcover) Library Journal 02/01/2005 pg. 57 (EAN 9780399152412, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 02/14/2005 pg. 57 (EAN 9780399152412, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2005 pg. 260 (EAN 9780399152412, Hardcover) Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 82 (EAN 9780399152412, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 01/01/2005 pg. 782 (EAN 9780399152412, Hardcover) New York Times 03/27/2005 pg. 21 (EAN 9780399152412, Hardcover) Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 82 (EAN 9781590866658, Compact Disc) Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 82 (EAN 9781590866627, Analog Audio Cassette) Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 82 (EAN 9781590866665, Compact Disc) Contributor Bio:  Barr, Nevada Nevada Barr is the author of the series of "New York Times" bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, a law enforcement park ranger. Her novels include "Winter Study", "Borderline" and "Burn". She won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel for "Track of the Cat". Like her character, Barr worked for the National Park Service as a park ranger before resigning to write full time. She had postings to such parks as Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas (where Anna Pigeon was created) and Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. She lives in New Orleans. Contributor Bio:  Bean, Joyce Joyce Bean is an accomplished audiobook narrator and director. In addition to being an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, she has been nominated multiple times for a prestigious Audie Award, including for Good-bye and Amen by Beth Gutcheon.